🚀 go-pugleaf

aek <aek@gist.net.au> wrote:

[snip]


>There are really only two points here.
>(1 is) All the small ISPs built on the original AARNET back bone to
>build the net in this country and as such, the axiom "No-one owns the
>net" currently stands. If you want to just give the net to telstra and
>therefore big Bill and his mate Rupert then be a dick-head.

Umm. Do a trace route to a US site. Microsoft for example (This is slow due
to me doing a 3.5KB/s download at the time):


C:\Win95\TRACERT microsoft.com

Tracing route to microsoft.com [207.68.156.54]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

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  6  2331 ms  2317 ms  2160 ms  Fddi1-0-0.pad13.Sydney.telstra.net
[139.130.32.5]
  7  2307 ms  2230 ms  2403 ms  Fddi0-0.pad8.Sydney.telstra.net
[139.130.249.228]
  8   441 ms   412 ms   418 ms  bordercore4-hssi0-0.SanFrancisco.mci.net 
[166.48.19.249]
  9   602 ms   564 ms   528 ms  bordercore2.Seattle.mci.net [166.48.208.1]
 10   430 ms   417 ms   449 ms  microsoft.Seattle.mci.net [166.48.209.250]
 11   442 ms   449 ms   423 ms  207.68.145.54
 12  207.68.145.54  reports: Destination net unreachable.

Trace complete.


Can you see 6 & 7 ?


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